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Open-File Report 2014-1224


Sea-Floor Morphology and Sedimentary Environments in Western Block Island Sound, Offshore of Fishers Island, New York


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Figure 31. Photograph of the sea floor in the study area.

Figure 31. Photograph of clay clasts and scattered shells on the sea floor at station 298_6, located to the east of a bathymetric depression with walls composed of silty clay glaciolacustrine sediment. The clasts at station 298_6 are likely derived from the depression and carried downcurrent where they are deposited on the sea floor. Photograph location is shown in figure 25

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